Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2017
Abstract
We use a household-level panel dataset from Bangladesh to examine the household-level relationship between fertility and the access to electricity. We find that the household's access to electricity reduces the change in the number of children by about 0.1 to 0.25 children in a period of five years in most estimates. This finding also applies to retrospective panel data and is robust to the choice of covariates and estimation methods. Our finding passes falsification test and corroborates with the predictions of our theoretical model on the households' time use and consumption pattern.
Keywords
Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Television, Difference in differences, Propensity score matching, Retrospective panel data.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Behavioral Economics | Infrastructure
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
Volume
11-2017
First Page
1
Last Page
49
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, Paper No. 11-2017
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki and SHONCHOY, Abu S..
Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh. (2017). 11-2017, 1-49.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2019
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Authors
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